NORTH DAKOTA STOCKMENS ASSOCIATION

The organizations are distributing cash to ranchers whose property was damaged or destroyed during the harsh winter and spring flooding.
Losses must have occurred between Nov. 1, 2008, and April 30, 2009.

In 1997, 91,458 adult cattle and calves were reported killed in spring blizzards and flooding. So far this spring, 91,000 cattle – 19,000 adult cattle and 72,000 calves - have died, according to an estimate by the USDA and the North Dakota State University Extension Service. Ranchers blame months of bad weather.